mpv-youtube-queue

A Lua script that replicates and extends the YouTube "Add to Queue" feature for mpv

Features

• Interactive Queue Management: A menu-driven interface for adding, removing, and rearranging videos in your queue
• yt-dlp Integration: Gathers video info and allows downloading with any link supported by yt-dlp
• Internal Playlist Integration: Seamlessly integrates with mpv's internal playlist for a unified playback experience
• Customizable Keybindings: Assign your preferred hotkeys to interact with the currently playing video and queue

Requirements

This script requires the following software to be installed on the system

• One of xclip, wl-clipboard, or any command-line utility that can paste from the system clipboard
  • Windows users can utilize Get-Clipboard from powershell by setting the clipboard_command in mpv-youtube-queue.conf file to the following: clipboard_command=powershell -command Get-Clipboard
• yt-dlp

Installation

• Copy mpv-youtube-queue.lua script to your ~~/scripts directory
  • ~/.config/mpv/scripts on Linux
  • %APPDATA%\mpv\scripts on Windows
• Optionally copy mpv-youtube-queue.conf to the ~~/script-opts directory
  • ~/.config/mpv/script-opts on Linux
  • %APPDATA%\mpv\script-opts on Windows to customize the script configuration as described in the next section

Configuration

Default Keybindings

• add_to_queue - ctrl+a: Add a video in the clipboard to the queue
• download_current_video - ctrl+d: Download the currently playing video
• download_selected_video - ctrl+D: Download the currently selected video in the queue
• move_cursor_down - ctrl+j: Move the cursor down one row in the queue
• move_cursor_up - ctrl+k- Move the cursor up one row in the queue
• load_queue - ctrl+l - Appends the videos from the most recent save point to the queue
• move_video - ctrl+m: Mark/move the selected video in the queue
• play_next_in_queue - ctrl+n: Play the next video in the queue
• open_video_in_browser - ctrl+o: Open the currently playing video in the browser
• open_channel_in_browser - ctrl+O: Open the channel page for the currently playing video in the browser
• play_previous_in_queue - ctrl+p: Play the previous video in the queue
• print_current_video - ctrl+P: Print the name and channel of the currently playing video to the OSD
• print_queue - ctrl+q: Print the contents of the queue to the OSD
• save_queue - ctrl+s: Saves the queue using the chosen method in default_save_method
• save_queue_alt - ctrl+S: Saves the queue using the method not chosen in default_save_method
• remove_from_queue - ctrl+x: Remove the currently selected video from the queue
• play_selected_video - ctrl+ENTER: Play the currently selected video in the queue

Default Options

• default_save_method - unwatched: The default method to use when saving the queue. Valid options are unwatched or all. Defaults to unwatched
  • Whichever option is chosen is the default method for the save_queue binding, and the other method will be bound to save_queue_alt
• browser - firefox: The browser to use when opening a video or channel page
• clipboard_command - xclip -o: The command to use to get the contents of the clipboard
• cursor_icon - ➤: The icon to use for the cursor
• display_limit - 10: The maximum amount of videos to show on the OSD at once
• download_directory - ~/videos/YouTube: The directory to use when downloading a video
• download_quality 720p: The maximum download quality
• downloader - curl: The name of the program to use to download the video
• font_name - JetBrains Mono: The name of the font to use
• font_size - 12: Size of the font
• marked_icon - ⇅: The icon to use to mark a video as ready to be moved in the queue
• menu_timeout - 5: The number of seconds until the menu times out
• show_errors - yes: Show error messages on the OSD
• ytdlp_file_format - mp4: The preferred file format for downloaded videos
• ytdlp_output_template - %(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s: The yt-dlp output template string
  • Full path with the default download_directory is: ~/videos/YouTube/<uploader>/<title>.<ext>
• use_history_db - no: Enable watch history tracking through integration with mpv-youtube-queue-server
• backend_host: ip or hostname of the backend server
• backend_port: port to connect to for the backend server

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3 license.